wedding day bloopers

Rounding out the 3-part series of wedding stuff at Kelly's Korner is the wedding today's showing of the reception/honeymoon. I've broken down this information into 6 random/funny facts about our wedding. So here it goes:

Random Fact #1: We got married on a Wednesday just so that we could stay at our reception venue as late as we wanted. I absolutely LOVED our reception! I loved the exposed brick, I loved the stamped tin ceiling, I loved that it was small enough that it didn't feel empty but large enough to accommodate a dance floor, and I loved that most of the people that came also had a lot of fun. I LOVED that we didn't have a receiving line. It made it so that people felt comfortable just chatting with our parents without feeling like they needed to hurry along so that the next person in line could congratulate them.
Random Fact #2: To me, my wedding cake was one of the most important aspects of the reception. I changed designs 3 times. I have always loved wedding cake, and as a child I would always get so disappointed when I saw a beautiful cake at a wedding but didn't get to eat it. So I made sure that there would be enough wedding cake for everyone in attendance. I debated for a while whether or not I should request to do the traditional "cake feeding" with a fork (I grew up eating just about everything with a fork... just ask Luis about eating fried chicken at my parents' house). I eventually decided it would be ok to not use a fork as long as the cake wasn't shoved in my face. Luis complied with that request... but I guess I needed to be more specific and I should have told him to not drop the cake down my dress either.
Random Fact #3: I felt super awkward by the end of our money dance. EVERYONE kept wanting to dance with Luis (including Billy), but I had run out of people to dance with.

Random Fact #4: One of my parents' friends decided to surprise us with an opera song of some type (I'm not a huge fan of opera so I have no clue what it was, but it was nice). The thing I thought was kind of funny was that at Luis' brother also had a surprise performer at his wedding (though theirs apparently was an awful impersonator of some famous Latin singer/dancer).

Random Fact #5: We weren't sure if we wanted to show our wedding slide show at the reception. With brick walls, there wasn't really any place to show it and we didn't want to bother with bringing in a TV. But they had this fireplace/water feature thing that ended up being really great.
Random Fact #6: We didn't want to spend our first night together driving to Las Vegas (a 4-5 hour drive from where we are at). So we stayed at a cute little local bed and breakfast. After we left the reception, we realized that the keys to our room were inside my purse... which I had conveniently forgotten at the reception site. Apparently people had tried to call us to tell us that I had forgotten my purse, but both of our cell phones were also in the purse. So we had to awkwardly return to the reception location to get my purse.
So, yes, there were several mishaps on the day of our wedding (those of you who have been reading since the beginning of Kelly's tour remember the rings, the dress, the cake, the keys... just to name a few). But I was so happy that none of those things mattered. I was able to just laugh and enjoy it all. I know it sounds cliche but it really was the best day of my life :)